Here’s a portrait of a swing voter:
Doris Stucky, a 79-year-old retired nurse from New Philadelphia, Ohio, said she thought all politicians were corrupt. “I think they’re out to line their pocketbooks and get votes and they don’t care what they do or say to get them,” said Mrs. Stucky, a Republican, in a telephone interview after she participated in the poll.
“They came down on Bob Ney and I don’t think he’s any more guilty than the rest of them,” she said. “It’s the same in Ohio. I think politicians are all the same. I wish we could find some good honest Christian politicians but I don’t think there are any.” Mrs. Stucky said she was undecided about whom she will vote for.
This is how Republicans blunt the reaction to their crimes. Whatever Ms. Stucky read or saw on television, it convinced her that the problem is with politicians as a species and not with anything peculiar to Republicans. Maybe the GOP was being hypocritical with all that faith-based rhetoric, but the Democrats are no better.
This is why they bring up totally irrelevant stuff like Gary Studds, or Harry Reid’s land deal, or Bill Clinton’s genitalia every ten minutes.
Just a thought to start your day.
Do you really think they bring up Bill Clinton’s genitalia every ten minutes? Impressive.
12 minutes?
That’s the late Gerry Studs. No worries, it’s still early.
And they won’t let his husband have his pension. I’m sure it would set a bad example, esp. since they need someone else to kick around other than Mark Foley and the leadership.
Bring up is perhaps not the best choice of terms. 😉
Good point.
:<)
I’m glad I’m not the only dirty minded liberal on this site.
You’re right of course.
But let me add one thing. The real problem isn’t the corrupt GOP politicians, its those reputable GOP members who enable them. Because they are afraid to speak up, even though they know their leadership is corrupt as all get out.
The few who do, such as Colo. Congressman Joel Hefley, the head of the Ethics Committee who had the audacity to actually investigate DeLay, get smacked down and no one comes to their support. These are the cowards that make GOP corruptions so massive in scale. When no one speaks out from your own party, everything goes to hell in a handbasket.
And that’s the difference in the parties. The Democrats, even when they controlled Congress always had a few who were willing to stand up to the corruption in their own party. Were some Dems corrupt back then? Sure, but not to this extent, because enough Dems spoke out, and enough other Dems stood by the whistleblowers.
She could support a good Jewish one, Feingold.
She can move to MN and find a “christian politician.” Here’s a link to an editorial in our local paper about Michele Bachman, our own Katherine Harris, who is saying she’s a “fool for Christ” and has recently been endorsed from the pulpit of one of our local mega-churches (oops, someone told the IRS).
http://www.startribune.com/357/story/749557.html
Bachman is running against Patty Wetterling, one of Booman’s 10 picks. The TV ads around here on this race are getting pretty ugly. Send Patty some love!!
In a just America, that church would lose it’s tax exempt status so fast it would make your head swim.
In this America, where justice is for sale to the highest bidder, it probably will not.
I am quite sure Democratic politicians are LESS corrupt, overall, than Republican politicians, but in general, I agree with Doris. If an entire political system is corrupt, as this one certainly is, then the only way anyone can even get into it, or stay there once they do, is to participate in, or at least comply with the corruption in some manner, shape or form, sooner or later.
As long as we continue to accept corruption as an inevitable, even normal aspect of politics, and as long as politcal power is reserved for the wealthiest (and most ruthless?) Americans, nothing is going to substantially change, except maybe in the degree of corruption inflicted in the name of serving the people, depending of which part is in power.
That’s why I expect to be voting for the lesser of two evils for the rest of my life,rather than for anyone I truly can trust to be a genuine leader with integrity and principles intact and operational.
Seems Doris is kinda missing the point here….all those good old boys/girls said they were ‘good CHRISTIAN politicians’…